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Old 03-07-12, 07:48 PM   #10246
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Congrats on surviving such a bold move!
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Very nice shots gentlemen!

Kafka, looks like you had a 'nice' little adventure there. That's what I love about this game. Nothing is ever easy.
Yeah, I guess it was kind of bold, come to think of it. I think I will try to find that 'Decks Awash' mod and try it again and see how far I get. It would be a feat to make it through without submerging fully.

Seeing that destroyer blow off its own DC Racks reminded me of a career I saved some shots from a few months back:

I was transferring my external torpedoes when I got interrupted by a River class DE traveling across my bow at full speed. Not wanting to submerge and start the transfer all over again, I thought I would risk it and stopped engines. He passed my bow at about 8000 meters without seeing me, but at a little over 9000 meters he turned and did a beeline straight for me. I dove and went at flank speed to get away from where I was and then went nearly doggo. He found me anyways.

Over two hours he circled me, making quick turns in, dumping a load on me, and moving out to circle again. No matter what depth (150 meters once) or what I did I couldn't seem to shake him. Say what you want about the stock game's AI, this guy actually made me very nervous and had me near sweating, it was challenging.


Finally when it appeared that I may have eluded him for a bit, I went to fifteen meters, popped the scope and fired a quick shot from my stern tube and dove again, hoping he didn't see me. The time passed when the torpedo should have hit so I went to the external cam to have a peak.

That's when I found out what the T4 Falke was for.


It followed the DE around, gained on it and blew its DC Racks and propellers off. A sigh of relief and an easy target after that.


And the hunt continues. I love going after convoys, the harder the better, that is why I start my careers in 1942 or 43.
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Old 03-07-12, 07:59 PM   #10247
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Snuck into Hartlepool overnight, sank the lone destroyer, surfaced and used the deck gun on four ships in the harbour. By the time the inevitable response showed up, I'd sunk the ships, moved position and lay in wait rather than sneaking away.

Also, Fraps may be my only solution - I've got SHIII installed on a laptop (it's all I've got :P ) so the keyboard commands aren't working for me. Thanks again for the suggestions though, all.
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Old 03-07-12, 07:59 PM   #10248
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Outstanding shots mate, especially love the widescreen movie feel
Thanks Fubar, they are just cropped down from 1280 x 960 screen shots, I think teaching myself photography and doing a lot of it in the late 70's and early 80's kind of gave me a sense of composition. Long haired freak that I was, I actually learned something there that I still remember how to do.
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Old 03-07-12, 08:21 PM   #10249
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Thanks Fubar, they are just cropped down from 1280 x 960 screen shots, I think teaching myself photography and doing a lot of it in the late 70's and early 80's kind of gave me a sense of composition. Long haired freak that I was, I actually learned something there that I still remember how to do.


I know the feeling mate, back then I had hair like Jesus, these days it's more Jesus I wish I had hair. Keep the screenies coming mate, with your permission I'd like to start a kind of photo library. Not sure why I haven't thought of this before.

Need to look into this further and ask permissions, Would be nice for an SH3 Art Museum, so to speak tho, thoughts guys ?

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Old 03-07-12, 09:20 PM   #10250
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....with your permission I'd like to start a kind of photo library.
Be my guest.

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Would be nice for an SH3 Art Museum, so to speak tho, thoughts guys ?
Good idea.

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Old 03-07-12, 09:48 PM   #10251
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Say what you want about the stock game's AI, this guy actually made me very nervous and had me near sweating, it was challenging.
Stock? You're playing STOCK???

SH5 has stupid stock AI. The complaint about SH3 stock has always been the laser-guided depth charges and psychic destroyers. Stock SH3 is much harder than it should be, not easier.
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Old 03-08-12, 09:03 AM   #10252
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Stock? You're playing STOCK???
Well, it's a modded stock, mostly the environment with a few changes to the visual settings in the sensors and config files to compensate, some graphics, skins, and waterstream and exhaust effects.

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SH5 has stupid stock AI. The complaint about SH3 stock has always been the laser-guided depth charges and psychic destroyers. Stock SH3 is much harder than it should be, not easier.
Really? I always thought it was supposed to be easier. I don't find the stock game that tough, especially in the early years. I figured, since it was 1943, that DE spotted me with radar or visually, and had a veteran crew, which is why I couldn't shake him as easily as others. When I use the external cam to see what is going on around my boat, I see DCs going off above, below, near and far from me, nothing seems laser-guided except my torpedoes, which I would like to mod to build some inaccuracies into them.
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Old 03-08-12, 09:33 AM   #10253
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I don't know why you're having the experience you are, but I do know that one of the first mods for SH3 was one that made the depth charges have historical values. The stock version has a kill zone roughly three times the size of real depth charges, if I'm remembering correctly. GWX and NYGM both have the same adjustment. I'm not sure about the others.
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Old 03-08-12, 03:19 PM   #10254
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Sorry, I couldn't get back right away. I had an important appointment at the hospital.

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I don't know why you're having the experience you are, but I do know that one of the first mods for SH3 was one that made the depth charges have historical values. The stock version has a kill zone roughly three times the size of real depth charges, if I'm remembering correctly. GWX and NYGM both have the same adjustment. I'm not sure about the others.
I like the experience. I don't believe I am that good at avoiding them, so I checked the relevant files in the library folder to see if a mod may have changed them but they are the originals dated 2004 and 2005. Their large zones probably explains why I always get deck gun, flak gun, conning tower, and deck damage a lot, I do die when the DCs are close enough or if I do something stupid.

Thanks for the info on those changes, I'm going to check them out and see about modding them in, but I don't want to make it to easy.
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Old 03-08-12, 06:31 PM   #10255
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Talking about stupid decisions, look what i found while i was being depth charged near Dunkirk by about 5 destroyers. I ended up dead after two hours being attacked by heavy flooding, i use Thomsen no instant death screen mod so i could watch the horrible ending.


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Old 03-09-12, 04:51 AM   #10256
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Old 03-09-12, 07:22 AM   #10257
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Talking about stupid decisions, look what i found while i was being depth charged near Dunkirk by about 5 destroyers. I ended up dead after two hours being attacked by heavy flooding, i use Thomsen no instant death screen mod so i could watch the horrible ending.


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This final is similar to "Sharks and little fish", by Wilhelm Ott. Horrendous!!!

Read that book, recommended!

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This final is similar to "Sharks and little fish", by Wilhelm Ott. Horrendous!!!

Read that book, recommended!

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I will look for it! Thankss!! So there's people from my country here! I was feeling kind of lonely!!! Greetings from Mar del Plata.
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Talking about stupid decisions, look what i found while i was being depth charged near Dunkirk by about 5 destroyers. I ended up dead after two hours being attacked by heavy flooding, i use Thomsen no instant death screen mod so i could watch the horrible ending.


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I will look for it! Thankss!! So there's people from my country here! I was feeling kind of lonely!!! Greetings from Mar del Plata.
You say nothing, but all we arrived with the U-977 with the treasure of the Third Reich and received by the (then) Colonel Perón.

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